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Can Airway/Mouthbreathing Cause TMJ and Jaw Development Issues?

ByLUMN

Yes!

Before: Narrow jaws, overbite, weak chin and TMJ pain
after
After: Non-surgical jaw development utilized to correct the TMJ pain and weak chin and overbite.

Mouth breathing can cause a host of oral and health issues that most people are not aware of. Proper Myofunctional Therapy can help solve a host of these issues as well as help with TMJ pain. 

Here are some issues that can happen with mouth breathing or breathing issues:

  1. Chronic Gingivitis (gum inflammation)
  2. Short lower face or weak chins
  3. Crowded Teeth
  4. Open Bites
  5. Underbites
  6. Constricted Airways
  7. Sleep Apnea
  8. Tongue Thrust due to airway issues
  9. Difficulty in completing braces due to mouth-breathing/tongue thrust
  10. Aberrant speech patterns
  11. Facial asymmetry 
  12. TMJ Pain
  13. Misaligned jaws

In short, breathing issues can cause jaw development problems and lead to the symptoms listed above.  Many patients do not recognize this until later in life.  Even then, most can be corrected non-surgically.

If you have questions or concerns regarding non-surgical jaw development or TMJ pain, please feel free to contact our office, Ronald W. Konig DDS, FAGD, LVIF, 713-668-2289.

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